ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,525, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Method for digitally securing an asset" was invented by Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India), Venkatraman Ramakrishna (Bangalore, India), Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy (Erode, India), Sandeep Nishad (Bangalore, India) and Vinayaka Pandit (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automatically and digitally securing an asset is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes hashing a secret preimage to produce a secret hash. The computer-implemented method further includes locking a digital colla...